Re: EXPLORER.EXE not responding

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lindendavies wrote:
Who needs the help here ??? ? ? ? 

Right, with the crashing, if it is not responding, it might not have
crashed.  But I dont have time to wait for it, if my computer has a

Explorer was neither crashing not hanging but just waiting to be closed which takes a while. It is responding.

funny five minutes, maybe leaving it for a while will bring it back to
life, but that does not mean it should be doing it.

Just do this.

Run a complete re-install of windows xp, download a progam called
diskkeeper to defrag your computer correctly.

What kind of advice is it to tell people "reinstall". That's huge and takes ages in particular if...

Then start installing your programs, install them one at a time and
reboot with every install, check out your computer performance for half
an hour with every install.

....if I would do that, because for each and every laptop supplement software it would easily add up to a week until I can have everything done. Second, I wrote that I had everything installed and the problem started gradually.

My guess is that there is a program slowing things up on your machine,
it has happened to me before, it could be happening to you.

No. No program is slowing anything up. It is a swapping/paging problem. Didn't I write that a couple of times? A program slowings things up does slow the whole machine. It consumes resources most likely CPU%. A program slowing things up can be easily identified with task manager or performance logging. The problem I had was not showing any signs of that. The computer worked fine except that occasionally and in particular during shutdown/logoff explorer.exe caused a whole lot of page faults before closing down. It did logoff fine when it happened during normal operation and I shortly afterwards started the logout. It only was explorer.

Check your background programs!!! - Check your video files, because 

I don't have nor use video files.

if you do not have the correct codecs installed it could crash your
system when windows tries to preview them.  Check the system for


Nothing crashes.

errors. If this does nothing, do the reinstall I mentioned above.

I wrote how I fixed the problem elsewhere in this thread. As I always wrote, it had to do with the paging file. Giving just the same general "re-install" to any problem without even reading what people write is pretty much poor advice in my opinion. I don't even have the impression that you really know what the page file is to really understand what is related with them and how to deal with page file problems. For you, it seems everything must be just a program somewhere in the background that slows down the computer and if it does not get away then just reinstall the system. Worse even, you don't properly consider the evidence given of the problem. I said from the beginning it is a paging problem. After more then 20 years in computing I know a paging problem when there is one...

Gerald
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